SWIT Best of 2017 Chapter 2

Hello Everybody. Well another end of year on SWIT and I’ve had an amazing time discovering all these Super World Indie Tunes. Tom and I search as far and wide as possible to hear as much new music from around the world.We take it seriously but we have a great time doing it and Tom…

SWIT’s Week: Our 13 BEST tunes from around the world.

We’re back and this time we’re hungry, hungry for big tunes and huge hits. So, without further ado about nothing we bring to you, the good burghers of SWIT, these 13 excellent musical extraludes from Meridian Brothers, Strand Child, Magana, Post Lovers, The Would Be’s, Andreas Dorau, Jimena Dominguez, Bertrand Burgalat, Clouds, Páll Ivan frá…

Super World Interview Time: MimiCof

Kyoto-born, Berlin-based MimiCof, who’s also been releasing music under her name Midori Hirano since 2006, has a new album – “Moon Synch” – out on Alien Transistor and it takes her in a different direction (see below). We absolutely love the record and we were delighted when she did this interview for us in May….

The Week 14052017: The 15 best tracks from the last 7 days.

I’m away in Limerick at the moment, she really is a lady, it’s true! Speaking of limericks here’s one of my favourites There was a young man called McVitie Who played for Manchester City He scored 90 goals all with his nose Now it’s all flat, what a pity And with that here are the…

Temple Stone Photo by Midori Hirano (aka MimiCof)

Latest piece to hung in La Galleria De La Switeux is by the multi-talented Midori Hirano. In her own words this is “a photo I took in a beautiful garden of the temple where I played live in Tokyo during my tour in Japan last time. The stone you can see in the picture shows “Number…

SWIT SWEMIERE: MimiCof – Opal

MimiCof – Opal We’re delighted to premiere the new video for MimiCof’s (aka Midori Hirano) track Opal off new album Moon Sync. I’ve had the pleasure of listening to this album for the past week and it’s a fantastic listen.Markus Wambsganss aka Kaliber 16 has produced a stunning video for the track which you can…

The Week 02042017: The 14 best tracks from the last 7 days.

Where have I been all your life? You might well ask, go on then. I’ve been right here. I’m the wallpaper to your wall, I’m the tolietpaper to your…[That’s quite enough of that, thankyou. Get on with it. Ed] ….so anyway we’ve done it again , or rather you have – let’s kick off (knowing…

We love MimiCof’s mixture of styles.

MimiCof – Spins Loving this latest Alien Transistor release – Here’s the single Spins off forthcoming LP from Japanese composer Midori Hirano aka Mimicof. In her own words “This LP is based on the recordings I made with a Buchla synthesizer during my residency at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion.It was the first time I worked with…